Doing head gaskets

ThinBlue502 said:

So after I got the heads off, I believe I found the issue. When I had the stroker put in, the builder reassembled the entire long block as well and apparently did not use any RTV anywhere besides the china walls. None of the water jackets had RTV, though. Now I’ve beat on this car for the last 7 years, so I guess I’ve got my moneys worth out of it.

The plus side was that the old gaskets both came off in one piece with fairly minimal residue left on the heads and block. Cleanup was pretty also fairly easy as a result.

I started putting the studs in last night but didn’t finish. I’ll snap some pics when I get all the studs in, still waiting on some of the other new hardware as well.

Thanks for all the help and insight!

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ThinBlue502 said:

I tried to clean things up a bit under the hood as much as possible. I tucked the big wire harness that went across the back of the firewall, and repainted the firewall and inner fenders too. For a home job wasn’t too bad!


Finished:



I had family come in from out of state, including my two brothers. They hadn’t ever ridden in the Mustang. They also had never driven a manual transmission. We remedied both issues and did some nasty donuts to boot!

Thanks again for all the help!

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